There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Reply to a clergyman who said to Lincoln that he hoped 'the Lord was on our side.' I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that this nation should be on the LORD'S side.
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ.
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
On being asked what had been said by a clergyman who preached on sin 'He said he was against it.'
A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman.
Preface to Emily Dickinson's Poems. by Thomas W. Higginson (18231911) US clergyman, author When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.
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